Tammy Bruce attends The Paley Honors: A Gala Tribute To LGBTQ in New York City on May 15, 2019
Out Fox host Tammy Bruce was aghast that President Joe Biden suggested that Donald Trump lacks “decency” because of how he mocks people, including people with disabilities.
Former President Jimmy Carter passed away this past weekend, and Biden was asked by reporters what Trump could learn from Carter.
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“Decency, decency, decency,” Biden responded. “Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk? I can’t.”
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Trump has a history of belittling people he disagrees with, including mocking reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, for being disabled.
Biden’s comment apparently struck a nerve with Bruce, who had a meltdown on Monday’s Outnumbered on Fox News.
“It’s a shame and it’s embarrassing for Joe Biden. He had that gritted teeth thing that he does,” she said, referring to what others may call a “smile.”
“We know, for 50 years, Joe Biden has been a jerk,” she said. “So perhaps he should take some of his own advice with what’s happened to this country. It was an opportunity – as President Trump, I think, illustrated – to be generous, right? Be generous.”
“The American people have made their decision, we’re all Americans, we’re moving forward, we will disagree politically and philosophically. It’s just a remarkable and a shameful thing to watch, but it is classic Biden.”
“This is what we’ve been seeing and it’s partly what the American people don’t like. You might not agree with Trump’s style, but Biden is presented as being as he was the unifier and the nice guy. You know, Scranton Joe. And he’s mean and he’s a bully. And it’s a shame and it’s embarrassing and it’s unfortunate.”
While Bruce is a right-wing ideologue today, in the 1990s she was the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). According to the LA Times, she was a “true believer who spent the first half of the 90s raising hell locally and nationally,” organizing marches and standing up to local politicians as she developed a career in the media.
Her first major conflict with other liberals started in 1995 when she helped lead protests against O.J. Simpson after he was acquitted of charges connected to the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown. The LA chapter of NOW eventually censured her and removed her from her leadership position after she faced criticism from Black feminists for making statements they said were racist while ignoring the racism involved in the Simpson case.
“Race issues are not at the very top of my list,” Bruce said in a later interview about the conflict with NOW, admitting that she didn’t think NOW should be “worrying about Black men.”
“What I worry about are women. That’s what makes me a feminist.”
Later in that decade, Bruce defended the hatefully anti-gay Dr. Laura Schlessinger and published a book entitled The New Thought Police, rebranding herself as a staunch critic of the left.
In 2003, she worked for the Republican Party and was appearing on Fox News and on Laura Ingraham’s far-right radio show. Completely free from any career-related need for approval from the left or anti-racist organizations, she attacked President Barack Obama and his family when he was inaugurated in 2009, saying, “We’ve got trash in the White House.”
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